comes just as top fund raising officials with the campaign are hosting a three-day gala in new york city. one of the big events of that gala is tonight on the uss intrepid featuring paul ryan, rudy giuliani, and donald trump. wolf? >> three weeks to go, but they're still raising tons and tons of money. jim acosta, thanks very much. the moderator of tomorrow night's huge debate is our own chief political correspondent candy crowley. she's the host of cnn's "state of the union." i want to first get to what president obama, you believe needs to do tomorrow night to prevent a repeat of his first presidential debate. >> i think the criticisms that you've heard both from democrats and republicans of president obama's first appearance was that he didn't seem into it, frankly. there wasn't any passion there. there was a listlessness there, a kind of disconnection. and people thought, boy, and even democrats were saying, gee, does he want this job? so there has to be passion there. there has to be a real vigorous standing up for what he believes in. having said that, i think jim is exactly right